Events of September 10, 2001

By Rollie Quaid

This article covers 2 events the day before 9/11 happened. There are more bizarre events that happened on 9/10/01, and I just wanted to remind the Renegade audience of these few.

On September 10, 2001 the Washington Times headlined title was “U.S. troops would enforce peace under Army study”.

A 68-page paper by the Army School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS) does provide a look at the daunting task any international peacekeeping force would face if the United Nations authorized it, and Israel and the Palestinians ever reached a peace agreement.

It calls Israel’s armed forces a “500-pound gorilla in Israel. Well armed and trained. Operates in both Gaza…”

Of the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service, the SAMS officers say: “Wildcard. Ruthless and cunning. Has capability to target U.S. forces and make it look like a Palestinian/Arab act.”

Note: Jews of the Irgun gang bombed the King David Hotel on July 22, 1946, dressed in Arab garb and posed as Arabs in a false flage event. It left 91 dead and 45 injured.

The article continues and reveals the future of the Carlyle group products (that Bush family, Colin Powell were Frank Carlucci are on retainer for), including a once top secret military device know as Predator drones and concludes with the possibility of covert military action.

The plan does not specify a full order of battle. An Army source who reviewed the SAMS work said each of a possible three brigades would require about 100 Bradley fighting vehicles, 25 tanks, 12 self-propelled howitzers, Apache attack helicopters, Kiowa Warrior reconnaissance helicopters and Predator spy drones.

“In general, the Bush administration policy is to discourage a large American presence,” he said. “But it has been rumored that one of the possibilities might be an expanded CIA role.”

Watch Alan Sabrosky (Former Director, U.S. Army War College) explain how “the US Military Knows Israel Did 9/11.”

The following is a CBS report from January 29, 2002, titled “The War On Waste” by Aleen Sirgany

Rumsfeld promised change but the next day – Sept. 11– the world changed and in the rush to fund the war on terrorism, the war on waste seems to have been forgotten.”

“According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions,” Rumsfeld admitted.

“$2.3 trillion — that’s $8,000 for every man, woman and child in America. To understand how the Pentagon can lose track of trillions, consider the case of one military accountant who tried to find out what happened to a mere $300 million.”

“We know it’s gone. But we don’t know what they spent it on,” said Jim Minnery, Defense Finance and Accounting Service.

Minnery, a former Marine turned whistle-blower, is risking his job by speaking out for the first time about the millions he noticed were missing from one defense agency’s balance sheets. Minnery tried to follow the money trail, even crisscrossing the country looking for records.

“The director looked at me and said ‘Why do you care about this stuff?’ It took me aback, you know? My supervisor asking me why I care about doing a good job,” said Minnery.

He was reassigned and says officials then covered up the problem by just writing it off.

“They have to cover it up,” he said. “That’s where the corruption comes in. They have to cover up the fact that they can’t do the job.”

The Pentagon’s Inspector General “partially substantiated” several of Minnery’s allegations but could not prove officials tried “to manipulate the financial statements.”

Twenty years ago, Department of Defense Analyst Franklin C. Spinney made headlines exposing what he calls the “accounting games.” He’s still there, and although he does not speak for the Pentagon, he believes the problem has gotten worse.

“Those numbers are pie in the sky. The books are cooked routinely year after year,” he said.

Another critic of Pentagon waste, Retired Vice Admiral Jack Shanahan, commanded the Navy’s 2nd Fleet the first time Donald Rumsfeld served as Defense Secretary, in 1976.

In his opinion, “With good financial oversight we could find $48 billion in loose change in that building, without having to hit the taxpayers.”

I remember the feeling of gloom and darkness coming over me when I heard of this declaration of war against a shadowy foe. This feeling has only become a constant feeling of doom. Perhaps it was Bush’s assigned role in world history to sign a declaration of war against everyone and none, something a man of intelligence and given to reflection would not have done.